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Richard Baxter and The Grotian Religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2016

Geoffrey F. Nuttall
Geoffrey F. Nuttall*
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University of London King’s College
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Extract

Richard Baxter admired many of Grotius’s writings. On several subjects, he writes, ‘I must in Gratitude Profess that I have learnt more from Grotius, then from almost any Writer … that ever I read’. The De Imperio he called ‘exact and judicious’; the De ventate he counted among the best defences of Christianity against atheists and infidels; the De satisfactione he thought ‘extraordinary clear and sound’ and fit to be in ‘the Poorest Library’. These and other pieces by Grotius, together with his Opera in four folio volumes, were in Baxter’s own collectionxs.

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Studies in Church History Subsidia , Volume 2: Reform and Reformation: England and the Continent c1500-c1750 , 1979 , pp. 245 - 250
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1979 

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